Re: Hardware SSI support

Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 30/07/07 18:40, Arno Stienen wrote:
>> I have a brand new absolute encoder. Considering all the options, I
>> would prefer to use hardware SSI (synchronous serial interface).
>> Grepping the Comedi source, the ADDI-DATA APCI-1710 seems to support
>> this mode.
> 
> The ADDI-DATA drivers aren't built at the moment due to improper use of
> floating point in the kernel and inclusion of i386-specific header
> files, which makes them non-portable.  They really need a bit of a
> rewrite to use 64-bit integer arithmetic instead of floating point.

If I wanted to use such a card, what would you advice me to do?

Bye,
Arno.

Received on 2007-08-02Z04:49:35